Many Bill Hero subscribers are interested to understand the ownership structures of the retailers they purchase their energy from. We have plans to introduce ownership structure as a 'non-price' decision criteria in our recommendations and rankings.
This functionality is not yet ready to deploy, so we have assembled this summary of the ownership structures for these retailers so our subscribers can manually review and choose their preferred supplier accordingly.
100% Australian-owned retailers
These retailers are wholly owned by Australian individuals and businesses entities
ActewAGL
Amber Electric
Aurora Energy
Bright Spark Power
Click Energy Partly
CovaU
Discover Energy
Dodo Partly
Elysian Energy
Ergon Energy
Energy Locals
Future X Power
GloBird Energy
LPE
Lumo Energy
Momentum Energy
People Energy
Pooled Energy
QEnergy
Red Energy
Sumo Power
Synergy
1st Energy
Partly Australian-owned retailers (includes publicly listed companies)
These retailers include some non-Australian ownership. We've included publicly listed retailers in the list because since they are public companies, they may have shareholders from outside Australia
AGL
Amaysim Energy
Commander Energy
DC Power Co
Diamond Energy
Enova Energy
Kogan Energy
Mojo Power
Origin Energy
Powerclub
Powerdirect
Powershop
ReAmped Energy
Foreign-owned retailers
These retailers are 100% non-Australian owned
Alinta Energy
Energy Australia
Nectr
OVO Energy
Simply Energy
Tango Energy
Social Energy